credibility
/kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/
credibility noun: a reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
Noun
credibility (countable and uncountable, plural credibilities)
- A reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
- After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.
- The inability of Trump's own spokespeople to speak authoritatively on the president's thinking and actions -- a challenge even Trump himself has acknowledged -- has left the White House with an enormous credibility gap, and has tarnished the reputations of many of its most visible spokespeople.2017 May 16, Dylan Byers, “Does anyone in Trump's White House have credibility?”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2025
- Synonyms:
- believability, personal capital
- A believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
credibility meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
credibility in Hindi
- reputation impacting one's ability to be believed
- प्रामाणिकता prāmāṇiktā
credibility in Tamil
- நம்பகத்தன்மை
credibility in Urdu
- credibility
- اعتبار iʻtibār, ساکھ sākh
credibility in Bengali
- বিশ্বাসযোগ্যতা
More languagesFewer languages
- credibility in Malayalam
- വിശ്വാസ്യത, വിശ്വസനീയത, ന്യായയുക്തത, പ്രയോഗക്ഷമത
- credibility in Kannada
- ವಿಶ್ವಾಸಾರ್ಹತೆ, ನಂಬಬಹುದಾದ ಗುಣ
- credibility in Punjabi
- ਅੱਘ aggha
- credibility in Arabic
- مِصْدَاقِيّة miṣdāqiyya
- credibility in Malay
- kebolehpercayaan, kredibiliti
- credibility in Indonesian
- keterpercayaan, kredibilitas
Examples of credibility in a sentence
- The question is his credibility or lack of same.
- Obviously, use of the word mais gives T'Boy's denial a lot more credibility.
- Get woke, go broke isn’t just about money, it’s about credibility and truth.
Synonyms of credibility
Forms of credibility
| plural | credibilities |
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Origin of credibility
Borrowed from French crédibilité, from Medieval Latin credibilitas, from Latin credibilis. By surface analysis, credible + -ity.
Words formed from credibility
Phrases with credibility
Questions about credibility
- What does credibility mean?
- Credibility means a reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
- What is credibility in Hindi?
- Credibility in Hindi is प्रामाणिकता (prāmāṇiktā). See Credibility meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is credibility?
- Credibility is a noun.
- How do you pronounce credibility?
- Credibility is pronounced /kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/.
- What is the plural of credibility?
- The plural of credibility is credibilities.
Words near credibility in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: credibility (page history and authors); credibility (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اعتبار (Urdu) (page history and authors); credibility (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); credibility (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); credibility (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅੱਘ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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